Test Words 11 Flashcards by Anil Saddat

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Tawdry

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Ostentatious, showy but cheap

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Treacly

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Excessively sentimental

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Studied

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Achieved by careful, deliverate effort

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Hagiography

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Biography with undue reverence

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Numinous

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Strong religious quality; Suggesting the presence of divinity

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Convivial

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Freindly

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Solipsism

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Self centered

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Salient

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Most important

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Hemmed in

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Prevent from change

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Ineluctable

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Inescapable,Unable to resist

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Aloof

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Not freindly

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Inviolate

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Free from violation

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Incarnation

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embody diety, spirit, quality

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Atavism

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Recurrence of or reversion to a past style

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Thrall

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Under someones power

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Fiddle

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Touch or Fidget with something restlessly

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Wont

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Likely

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Patina

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Appearance of

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Ineffable

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Too great to express in wordsP

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Prudent

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Care or thoughful of the future

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Foible

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A minor weakness in someones character

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Apollonian

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Rational, Ordered and Self Disciplined aspects of human nature.

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Pared down

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Cut something to its simplest form

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Canny

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Good judgement with money

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Provident

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Timely prep for the future

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Veracity

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Being accurate

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Undergird

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Support

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Cupability

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Blame, Responsibility of fault

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Susceptible

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Likely to be harmed

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Savvy

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Practical Knowledge

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Entrapment

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State of being caught

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Disheveled

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Untidy

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Arcane

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Known only by few, mysterious

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Unwittingly

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Unintentionally

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Blithely

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Cheerful indifference

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Scant

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Barely sufficient

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Poring

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Be absorned in reading or studying

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Faltering

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Losing Strength or momentum

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Derisive

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Expressing contempt or ridicule

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Fortitude

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Courage in pain and hardship

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Marring

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Impair the quality and appearance of

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Forbidding

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Unfreindly appearance

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Stilted

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Stiff or self concious or unnatural

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Endue

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Endow

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Begrudge

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Envy someones possession or quality

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Furor

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An outbreak of anger or excitement

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Unstinting

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Unsparing, without resistance

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Preponderance

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being greater in quantity or importance

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Ambit

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Scope or extent

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Impugn

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Call into question, dispute the truth or validity of a statement.